Hi everyone,
i posted a month or two ago about my recently disfellowshipped sister who was feeling massive amounts of shame and doubt. I moved out of my home state 5 years ago so she has come to visit me twice since she has been df'd and she loves it here. I am a recovered alcoholic (5 years clean and sober) and spend my days with the most amazing non judgmental people I've ever met. When she is here she feels loved and accepted. Half of her wants to pick up and move here but then she has my mom and dad laying on the doomsday stuff really thick. Every time she leaves visiting me and goes home I get texts everyday about how she doesn't want to 'be' anymore. I've been successful in getting her to think for herself a little bit but every time she does she feels guilty and the cognitive dissociation kicks in.. She has acknowledged that most of her responses to my questions are scripted. Not actually coming from what she believes. She just says things like this is 'all I know because it's all I've been taught.' I am doing my best to be as supportive and loving to her as I am allowed to be. My fear is tomorrow is their convention and I've already read the horror of what this years program looks like. My mom has already started to limit her assosiation with me since my sister has made me such a close confidant. My mom is starting to treat me like an enemy instead of family. It hurts a lot. Honestly I am not sure what this thread is about. Sometimes I guess I just need to hear from other people who understand all of this nonsense. My husband is massively supportive but it still baffles him a lot of the time. I've been away from the org so long (12 years) and all of this that's going on with my sister had just stirred up a lot of Jw craziness. I have hope for my sister that I never had before. Maybe she will wake up and have the life she's always wanted instead of living for rules and other people. I just want her to have the happiness that I've found.